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Spears, it sure looks good, a bit like old scandinavian anvils. Hope it works as good as well :-).
Dennis G, I like your removable side horn idea. Some old French anvils had such a (fixed) horn. Doesn't the horn move too much when you work on it? Or can you lock it in place?

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Doesn't the horn move too much when you work on it? Or can you lock it in place?


Not at all, the square holes were made slightly smaller then the tubing I used on the horn. All I had to do was sand the sides down so it slid in to each one. No movement at all.
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well here is my anvil i have no idea what it is or how old it is it had a big chunck out of the corner of the face i rewelded it up with some 7018 rod i preheated it before hand but i think i made a mistake and refaced it with a horizontal mill but it works for me

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So I mentioned a while back that I was planning on doing some repairs on my 455 pound Peter Wright that I picked up about 3 months ago.

Before:
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It's not perfect as we didn't have the time to fill every single minute nick in the face. Some of them I thought would polish out, but I decided not to grind on it too much, so some of the small nicks remain. I figure considering how basic my skills are, I don't need anything that has fewer flaws than I do. I guess I could have left the face untouched and full of divots and it would still have fewer flaws than me...

The biggest improvement we made was to rebuild the heavily rounded edge on the far side. My welders are one of my structural steel suppliers. They provided the Messer MG740 rods and provided a journeyman welder (about 8 hours of shop time), the welding equipment and the oxy/acetlylene setup (preheating), all for free of charge. They just want me to forge them something in return.

I would like to give my thanks to Maddog and Mr. Junior Strasil. I contacted Maddog after he gave his input in an avil repair thread. He referenced me to Mr. Strasil who graciously provided his blueprint on anvil repair and answered any additional questions that I had.

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So I mentioned a while back that I was planning on doing some repairs on my 455 pound Peter Wright that I picked up about 3 months ago.

Before:
post-4446-0-80208400-1295232411_thumb.jppost-4446-0-21635100-1295232450_thumb.jppost-4446-0-68074200-1295232508_thumb.jp

After:
post-4446-0-60718800-1295232575_thumb.jppost-4446-0-19660000-1295232672_thumb.jppost-4446-0-70593500-1295232740_thumb.jp

It's not perfect as we didn't have the time to fill every single minute nick in the face. Some of them I thought would polish out, but I decided not to grind on it too much, so some of the small nicks remain. I figure considering how basic my skills are, I don't need anything that has fewer flaws than I do. I guess I could have left the face untouched and full of divots and it would still have fewer flaws than me...

The biggest improvement we made was to rebuild the heavily rounded edge on the far side. My welders are one of my structural steel suppliers. They provided the Messer MG740 rods and provided a journeyman welder (about 8 hours of shop time), the welding equipment and the oxy/acetlylene setup (preheating), all for free of charge. They just want me to forge them something in return.

I would like to give my thanks to Maddog and Mr. Junior Strasil. I contacted Maddog after he gave his input in an avil repair thread. He referenced me to Mr. Strasil who graciously provided his blueprint on anvil repair and answered any additional questions that I had.

Nice Job sask mark
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Here are my anvils ...

-a 90lb Mousehole
-a 120lb Peter Wright
-a 175lb Peter Wright
-a 300lb H.Boker
-my home-build 20lb mild steel block anvil
-newest one ... 50lb cast iron ASO (only paid $65.00)

-the last photo is a cast steel Vaughan anvil - 100lbs
technically it's not mine, it belongs to my school shop, but when I leave the school I'm going to make an offer to buy it

Sam

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